McCormick Scholarship available to music majors

The Rachel McCormick Memorial Scholarship committee announces that her family, friends, and alumni of the Mullinville High School have established a scholarship in the memory of Rachel McCormick.

The Rachel McCormick Memorial Scholarship committee announces that her family, friends, and alumni of the Mullinville High School have established a scholarship in the memory of Rachel McCormick. This $1000 gift is to be used for education expenses for the 2013-2014 school year and will be given to a college junior or senior majoring in music or music education from Kiowa, Pratt, Comanche, Ford, or Edwards counties in Kansas.

Rachel McCormick and her music touched the lives of many people. Her family and friends would like her memory to keep on living by helping a deserving music major. Previous years recipients of the Rachel McCormick Memorial Scholarship have been, Stacey Shank, Greensburg, Scott Sternberger, Coldwater, Lynette Zimmerman, Mullinville, Alysha Ladenburger, Hays, Susan Vice, Bucklin, Lindsey Ritchie, Hays, Kara Sparks, Winfield and Melanie Herd, Coldwater. This is the twelfth year for the Memorial Scholarship, which is an on going fund.

Contributions towards the scholarship can be sent to the Mullinville United Methodist Church, Rachel McCormick Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 27, Mullinville, KS 67109. Help give someone the opportunity to make an impact on others the way that Rachel did.

Deadline for application is 5:00 P.M., April 26, 2013. Persons interested in applying may contact the music departments in any Kansas four-year college, or email Rachel McCormick Scholarship Fund, istorrer@att.net